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• Treats modernity as an ethnographic object by focusing on its concrete manifestations.
  
• Tackles issues of broad interest: from colonialism and globalization to war, genetics, and AIDS.
  
• Draws on work from North and South America, Europe, Africa, and South and Southeast Asia.
  
• Contributors include James Ferguson, Akhil Gupta, Aihwa...

• Provides a rich introduction to the subject
  
• Grounds the study of globalization ethnographically by locating global processes in everyday practice
  
• Addresses the global flow of capital, people, commodities,...

• Treats modernity as an ethnographic object by focusing on its concrete manifestations.
  
• Tackles issues of broad interest: from colonialism and globalization to war, genetics, and AIDS.
  
• Draws on work from North and South America, Europe, Africa, and South and Southeast Asia.
  
• Contributors include James Ferguson, Akhil Gupta, Aihwa...

• Examines how various authorities have created knowledge about and constructed -illegal- immigration as an ethical problem.
  
• Analyzes the tactics that have been deployed to govern immigration, particularly at the US-Mexico border.
  
• Using an ethnographic approach, draws on primary source...

• Provides a rich introduction to the subject
  
• Grounds the study of globalization ethnographically by locating global processes in everyday practice
  
• Addresses the global flow of capital, people, commodities,...

In the contemporary United States, matters of life and health have become key political concerns. Important to this politics of life is the desire to overcome racial inequalities in health; from heart disease to diabetes, the populations most afflicted by a range of illnesses are racialized minorities. The solutions generally proposed to the problem of racial health disparities have been social and environmental in nature, but in the wake of the mapping of the human genome, genetic thinking has come to have considerable influence on how such inequalities are problematized. Racial...